Generate rounds in Up and Down the River

In Up and Down the River you generate one round at a time from the Matches tab. The first round sets the starting courts; each round after moves winners up one court and losers down one.

Round 1: the starting order

With no results yet, you choose how to seed the courts. The order you pick fills Court 1 downward, four players to a court (two pairs in Up and Down the River (Set Partners)).

1. On the empty round, tap Set Groups and Generate Matches.

2. In Start Games - Select Method, choose how to order players, then tap Continue:

   • Random

   • By DUPR Rating (shown only when at least one player has a DUPR rating)

   • By Standings (shown only when another division in the event has results to seed from)

   • From a Previous Event

3. Review the courts that open, then tap Looks Good, or save your changes if you moved anyone.

Whatever you choose only sets the starting position; after round 1 it is all results.

To pick up where last season left off, choose From a Previous Event and pick a division from an earlier event at your club. Returning players start in the order they finished there, and new players are slotted in by DUPR. Nobody returning starts below the place they finished. In the Set Partners version, a pair is matched only when the same two partners played together. See Seed the first round from a previous event.

Generating later rounds

1. Score every match in the current round.

2. Use the arrow at the top of the Matches tab to go to the next round.

3. Tap Set Groups and Generate Matches (or open the Admin menu and tap Generate followed by the round's name, for example Generate Week 3).

4. Choose From Previous Round Results and tap Continue.

5. Check the courts, then tap Looks Good, or save your changes if you moved anyone.

Winners move up a court and losers move down. A top-court loser drops to Court 2, not to the bottom. In Up and Down the River (the individual version), everyone gets a new partner on their new court.

Who is included

Each round uses the players opted in for that date. If too few have opted in, players who haven't answered yet are added. To keep someone out of a round, remove them from their court in Edit Groups.

When the numbers do not divide by 4

Every court needs exactly four players, so any remainder forms a bye group and those players sit that round. When someone will sit out, the generate window shows Bye Mode:

• By Position (the default): bottom-court losers swap places with the bye group. With one player on bye, one bottom-court loser (picked at random) sits out.

• Rotation: whoever has sat out the fewest rounds sits out next, and nobody sits out two rounds in a row.

In Up and Down the River (Set Partners) the same applies to pairs: courts take two pairs, so an odd pair sits out. See Byes in ladder formats.

More than one round on a date

A play night can run several rounds. In the Admin menu, tap Add Round for This Date. Rounds on the same date are labelled Week 1-1, Week 1-2, and so on (the first number is the date, the second is the round within it).

Add Round for This Date adds the round and generates its matches straight away. To add a play date without generating anything, use Manage League Dates instead. See Managing rounds and dates in Ladder formats.

Generating automatically

Auto-generation builds the next round as soon as every match is scored. Turn it on with Enable Auto-Generation in the Admin menu after you have generated round 1 yourself. You can't clear a round while it is on. See Auto-generation in Ladder formats.

Adjusting before play

To move someone to a different court before a round is played, use Edit Groups in the Admin menu. See Editing groups in Ladder formats.

Related

• How movement works in Up and Down the River

• How partners are chosen each round

• Troubleshoot Up and Down the River

• League opt-in